From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <028801c1aea2$610d96a0$0900a8c0@Domain.invalid> From: "murali nagarajan" To: "David A. Gatwood" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Problem with ping/telnet Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:08:02 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hello David, With your info, I am able to do a telnet from my board to the host, only if I specify the port number. What surprises me is that the presence of both /etc/services (entry to telnet is available with a port number) and the /etc/protocols files. For some reason, may be the boot process is unable to read these information. But when I want to do a telnet to my board from my host iMAc, I am unable to do. I get an error message "connection refused". /proc file system is not mounted during the boot time and I mount it immediately after getting the "bash" prompt. With PING still looking for some leads...(I can ping from the host to my taget board) Any ideas? Thanks, Murali ------------------------------------- > > - PING command does not work > > The erro message I get is "ping: unknown protocol icmp" > > Don't know. Might be a kernel compile issue or something, or it might be > related to the second issue. Not sure. > > > > - Telnet program does not work which tells me that the service is unknown. > > The error message I get is "telnet: tcp/telnet: unknown service" > > This one's easy. Telnet explicitly asks the system for the default port > number for telnet service. If you don't have a valid /etc/services file > (with telnet listed), it won't be able to do so, and it will fail. If you > specify a port number by hand (e.g. telnet foo.com 23), it should work. > Or you can just put in an /etc/services file. > > > Later, > David > ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/